The Security Guards had no legal power to arrest anybody. Later investigation showed that two of the Security Guards were active duty military personnel. It is illegal for active duty military personnel in the United States to participate in a political campaign.

President Obama's health care plan has sparked vandalism against the offices of Democratic Party Congress persons, and death threats against their children.

オバマ大統領の健康保険計画でそれを支持している民主党議員の事務所に破壊行為が有って、それとその議員の子供達を殺す脅かしが有りました。

http://thinkprogress.org/2010/03/23/slaughter-threats/
Senatorial candidate for Nevada, Sharron Angle, has said that the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution should be used to control the United States Congress. The 2nd amendment guarantees Americans the right to have private weapons, guns.

What she means here, and every American understands this, is that any member of Congress that she disagrees with should be shot.

彼女の言っている意味を、すべてのアメリカ人は分かります。その意味は、彼女と意見が合わない議員を撃つべきと言う事です。

All of these people are Tea Party candidates. In this election, political violence form the left has been negligible, while on the Right it is common.

上記で書いている候補者は、すべて茶会の候補者です。この選挙で、左派からの暴力はわずかですが、右派からは普通です。

Just what is happening? I have been writing about the possibility of American Civil War on my blog. I think it is now becoming reality. The Tea Party now totally dominates the American Republican Party. The Christian Fundamentalist movement dominates the Tea Party.

The actions and words of the people I have linked to above, are not Democratic. They intend violent revolution, they are now saying it and acting in that way. But these are not some crazy person who lives alone in the woods.

Wednesday, October 6, 2010

There has been a recent blow up of the Senkaku affair again. A Chinese fishing vessel rammed a Japanese Coast guard ship. The Chinese vessel was found to be in Japanese waters, tried to escape, and in the escape attempt rammed the Japanese ship.

Now as far as the Japanese government handling of the affair, detaining the ship and it's crew was exactly the correct decision. It is proper behavior to stop when being questioned by a nation's Coast guard. And you certainly do not not ram a Coast Guard vessel.

Now, China's actions after the incident were absolutely boorish. They behaved like an arrogant gangster.

この事件後の中国の活動は、とても不作法でした。傲慢な悪党みたいな行動をしました。

The only criticism I have of the Japanese government is the Chinese Captain should not have been released until after he had been tried and sentenced. I can understand a light sentence, such as probation and a fine, but he should have had his day in court. Giving him back so easily is a sign of weakness.

Now I would like to talk about keeping US forces in Japan. There will be those people who say that America is needed to protect Japan. I say Japan can protect itself. And China simply does not have the ability to land more than small units anywhere on Japanese territory.

This is not healthy for the United States. I have talked about the possibility of an American Civil War on this blog. I think such excessive military spending is one of the reasons for America's economic crisis. And the economic crisis and destruction of the American Middle Class is directly feeding the possibility of Civil War.

I think that with the creation of a division sized Japanese Marine Corps, increase in the number of submarines, and the construction of two aircraft carriers, (30 aircraft each) we can have adequate military force to defend Japan into the far future.

The cost of these measures can be offset by the elimination of host nation support for Americans when their dependents go home, and the dual use of several Japanese army divisions as labor in areas like fishing and farming.